Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810

Adolfssen, Jan S. & Ward, David J., 2015, Neoselachians from the Danian (early Paleocene) of Denmark, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (2), pp. 313-338 : 327

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https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.2012.0123

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Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810
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Genus Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810 View in CoL

Type species: Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810 ; Recent, warm-temperate to tropical waters.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Sweden to the Danian (early Paleocene) of Denmark ( Davis 1890; Siverson 1995), Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Spain ( Cappetta and Corral 1999), and possibly the Ypresien–Lutetien (Eocene) of France (Adnet 2006).

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